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Exhibition Unites Three Museums

LIVERPOOL -- Three key European art museums unite to bring together over 60 major artworks from 1945 onwards in a new exhibition titled, 'An Imagined Museum', works from the Pompidou, Tate Liverpool, and Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt (MMK).

Art collectors of ArtKabinett social media network look forward to this collaborative exhibition of iconic pieces from three important European museums.

The exhibition draws on Ray Bradbury’s 1953 sci-fi novel Fahrenheit 451, a narrating of a distant future in which works of literature are banished and the only way to save them is to learn them by heart.

An Imagined Museum invites audiences into a fictional scenario in which the exhibited artworks are about to vanish. In the same way that Bradbury’s characters memorize books to ensure their future preservation, An Imagined Museum asks visitors to memorize its artworks.

The exhibition will culminate in a final weekend, when all artworks will have left the gallery to be replaced by members of the public who will personally recollect the works, their emotional impact and intellectual value.

By bringing together over 60 significant pieces of art, the exhibition proposes interpretations of the unique values that only art brings into our lives.

Its sections elaborate on key reasons to save art for the future such as its ability to transform the everyday, to alter perceptions, to celebrate the enigmatic and to anticipate the future.

Part of Tate Liverpool’s autumn/winter season, entitled Works to Know by Heart, the exhibition encourages audiences to take an active role in the exhibition and to form a personal relationship with the artworks on display.

It is through this proposal that the exhibition imagines a future museum which is made by and with audiences and in which their relationship to the works of art is as important as the works themselves.

'An Imagined Museum' will be presented consecutively at Tate Liverpool (20 November 2015 – 14 February 2016), MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main (24 March 2016 to 11 September 2016), and at Centre Pompidou-Metz (21 October 2016 to 27 March 2017).